Gaddafi's Death , A Lesson To Corrupt Leaders, Says Braithwaite

ELDER statesman and human rights lawyer, Dr yesterday urged corrupt leaders in Africa to either flee their country or revert to their underground bunkers without showing their faces in public.Ostensibly reacting to the demise of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, Braithwaite, in a statement yesterday said the ink of the serialization by the Guardian of his book, ' The Jurisprudence of the Living oracles has hardly dried before the essential feature of the work was laid bare before the whole world.According to him, the essential feature of the work is that no matter how comfortable and secure any despot, tyrant or corrupt office holder may cocoon himself, when the collectivity of the people, in steady and untiring resistance decide to deal with him, there would be no hiding place nor an escape for the rat and cockroach, that he is.He said: ' We have made this characterization, in the Nigeria environment , this past 38 years, only to be consistently proved right.' Within a space of nine months, beginning from late last year, many hard-core, brutal, secured and well-connected, but corrupt, manipulative and godless despots have been 'decapitated' in the Arab worlds, just as in the European revolution of the Middles Ages.' The Nigerian corruption is many times more grievous and debilitating than what obtained in the Arab world. It exists in all the arms of government, in act, Corruption is King in Nigeria''But because its practitioners and exponents appear not only to prosper thereby, but also seem 'to get away' with the evils, they feel untouchable as they perceive the mass of Nigerians too docile and un enlightened to engage them in showdown. They have even boasted that the Arab type revolution can never see the light of day in Nigeria.'.
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